Over the past week, The News has run a series of articles about Shepparton teenager Michelle Buckingham, who was murdered at the age of 16 in 1983. Her body was found on a lonely roadside with at least 19 stab wounds.

Bernadine Phelan was a young journalist when Michelle Buckingham went missing in 1983. Over the subsequent months, she reported on the search for the teenager and the discovery of her battered body in Kialla East.

Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles "desperately needs" to hear from a man who phoned Crimestoppers on
August 25 with what he believes could be vital information. He is urging the man to call him back.

Shepparton lawyer Brian Birrell became entangled in the investigation into the 1983 murder of Shepparton teenager Michelle Buckingham when a man walked into his office with a knife and a desire to make a statement.